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Username: Brenda
Post Number: 64
Registered: 02-2007
| | Posted on Tuesday, March 11, 2008 - 2:37 pm: |    |
The first boy I dated was from Denby, Jim Wirth, class of 1969 when I went to Cass Tech. Is there anyone in this site from that time period? I also knew Donna Wasson and Greg Fasson (sp) who went to school from 1966-69. I learned how to drive from a crusty women hating man during the summer of 67--before I became 16...outsmarted the old goat, cuz my father was teaching me how to drive around Belle Isle and on the service streets....I remember that driver's teacher making one girl cry because of his costic behavior, but not me...so here it is some 40 years later, and as a woman driver, a former Navy vet and only one accident (on top of a mountain in Oregon)...I have done fine...one funny note was the guys reconnecting the radios in the cars when we went round the test circle...the teacher was irate, but oh well, it made me laugh then and does now..... |
Gibran
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Username: Gibran
Post Number: 2025
Registered: 02-2007
| | Posted on Tuesday, March 11, 2008 - 2:55 pm: | |
well ...we must of all got extra practice around Belle Isle..when I was learning my dad took me there and after a few times around the Island we headed home down Jefferson...problem was it was rush hour and by the time my dad and I got hom ehe was white knuckled and told my mom he was through...when my little sister came up, I had to take her out...and it was my turn to get white knuckled... |
Goblue
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Username: Goblue
Post Number: 1360
Registered: 03-2007
| | Posted on Tuesday, March 11, 2008 - 10:28 pm: | |
Brenda: Did Jim Wirth by any chance have an older sister named Penny. I dated a Penny Wirth at Denby in the late 50's.
Gib: I never got driving practice at Belle Isle...but it was a great place for other kinds of practice! |
Eastside61
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Username: Eastside61
Post Number: 1109
Registered: 07-2006
| | Posted on Tuesday, March 11, 2008 - 11:01 pm: | |
Brenda: be careful.....GB never dated anyone until his senior year and he took a SE girl to a Luther League afternoon dance....Penny Wirth was a total FOX at Denby and would have nothing to do with a crease ball and oddball (Asperger Spectrum) comes to mind who still has various unacceptable ticks..... |
Jjaba
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Username: Jjaba
Post Number: 6181
Registered: 11-2003
| | Posted on Wednesday, March 12, 2008 - 11:26 am: | |
Nobody has ticks at Cass Tech. WTF!••
jjaba, Class of '59. |
Eastside61
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Username: Eastside61
Post Number: 1111
Registered: 07-2006
| | Posted on Wednesday, March 12, 2008 - 4:38 pm: | |
J - Only the students who lived on the westside and who were lucky enough to attend that GREAT EASTSIDE HS - Cass Tech came to Cass with some aspect of being on the spectrum.....Right! and not WTF!••• |
Goblue
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Username: Goblue
Post Number: 1363
Registered: 03-2007
| | Posted on Thursday, March 20, 2008 - 7:49 pm: | |
Brenda: If you're still on the thread you can see that ES61 doesn't always play with a full deck...his Haight-Ashbury days musta been somethin'. |
Eastside61
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Username: Eastside61
Post Number: 1115
Registered: 07-2006
| | Posted on Friday, March 21, 2008 - 10:51 am: | |
Don't be fooled....Penny Wirth never gave GB a second look..... |
Goblue
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Username: Goblue
Post Number: 1364
Registered: 03-2007
| | Posted on Friday, March 21, 2008 - 12:06 pm: | |
Wrong......PW and I were a hot number for awhile...it was during the time that ES was trying to learn to color within the lines...ES is correct about one thing...she was a total fox! |
Eastside61
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Username: Eastside61
Post Number: 1118
Registered: 07-2006
| | Posted on Friday, March 21, 2008 - 4:30 pm: | |
To all TARS of the late 50's era..... I have received a call from the Prescott Memorial Hospital and I need to let you all know that GB has finally check himself into the psych ward on the first floor....It is called One South for those in the area who want to visit GB....he continues to recover from hallucinations about dating PW, SR, SJ and both of the Kroenig sisters along with Renee M. who lived on Mapleridge....Pray for him!••• |
Goblue
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Username: Goblue
Post Number: 1368
Registered: 03-2007
| | Posted on Friday, March 21, 2008 - 7:52 pm: | |
ES: You left out Sheila F...she visited the WMU campus often...complaining about the small sizes of men on the Greenie campus. |
Eastside61
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Username: Eastside61
Post Number: 1121
Registered: 07-2006
| | Posted on Saturday, March 22, 2008 - 1:43 am: | |
To all TARS: GB has checked himself out of the psych ward and continues to mumble and drool when trying to speak....How sad!••
He is scheduled to be part of the A & E intervention TV show in May. |
Goblue
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Username: Goblue
Post Number: 1374
Registered: 03-2007
| | Posted on Saturday, March 22, 2008 - 10:27 am: | |
Thank God I was able to convince Sheila that she didn't need a magnifying glass for all TAR's...she had a great time on the WMU campus...loved the '56 Ford. |
Eastside61
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Username: Eastside61
Post Number: 1123
Registered: 07-2006
| | Posted on Saturday, March 22, 2008 - 10:37 pm: | |
GB: Just talked to PWirth.....she cannot seem to place you......She wondered If you drove a purple Kaiser???? and Larry King type suspenders???? Maybe you could post a pic...... |
Goblue
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Username: Goblue
Post Number: 1375
Registered: 03-2007
| | Posted on Sunday, March 23, 2008 - 8:39 pm: | |
ES: Yeah...riiiight!! In your dreams! PW was before the '56...but I guarantee that she would remember! |
Eastside61
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Username: Eastside61
Post Number: 1125
Registered: 07-2006
| | Posted on Monday, March 24, 2008 - 12:14 am: | |
GB - Dream on brother...... I want to clean off my desktop and need to put away the SJ info .... I could shred it for you |
Goblue
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Username: Goblue
Post Number: 1377
Registered: 03-2007
| | Posted on Wednesday, March 26, 2008 - 6:07 pm: | |
A clean desk is a sign of a sick mind! |
Eastside61
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Username: Eastside61
Post Number: 1128
Registered: 07-2006
| | Posted on Wednesday, March 26, 2008 - 6:47 pm: | |
GB - I keep coughing and sneezing......but my head is still clear....well kinda!••••• SJ info has been buried in the paddock |
Goblue
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Username: Goblue
Post Number: 1380
Registered: 03-2007
| | Posted on Wednesday, March 26, 2008 - 8:59 pm: | |
Why am I quite certain that, if indeed it exists, it will be resurrected in due time. I put nothing past the CSI gang! |
Eastside61
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Username: Eastside61
Post Number: 1130
Registered: 07-2006
| | Posted on Wednesday, March 26, 2008 - 9:36 pm: | |
GB - I can't wait until the outcome of the LA - CSI meeting in June...I hope they will take the top 10 questions / info that we can formulate and send to them prior to June..... |
Goblue
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Username: Goblue
Post Number: 1382
Registered: 03-2007
| | Posted on Thursday, March 27, 2008 - 11:05 am: | |
MSU in the Sweet Sixteen...U-M top seeded for NCAA Hockey...about as good as it gets! |
Jjaba
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Username: Jjaba
Post Number: 6222
Registered: 11-2003
| | Posted on Thursday, March 27, 2008 - 11:26 am: | |
Must be an Eastside thing. Where's Michigan colleges in opera, violin, cello, or jazz?
Eastsiders make us look like Ohio for crissakes.
jjaba, Proudly Westside. |
Eastside61
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Username: Eastside61
Post Number: 1131
Registered: 07-2006
| | Posted on Thursday, March 27, 2008 - 2:18 pm: | |
J: Stay on the Dexter bus a little while longer....... then you will come to realize that the Eastside is the home of EVERYTHING with class.....
ES 61..... Proudly, Eastside. |
Goblue
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Username: Goblue
Post Number: 1383
Registered: 03-2007
| | Posted on Thursday, March 27, 2008 - 3:48 pm: | |
Now Jjaba....ES plays a mean blue grass fiddle...don't that count? |
Eastside61
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Username: Eastside61
Post Number: 1133
Registered: 07-2006
| | Posted on Thursday, March 27, 2008 - 3:59 pm: | |
J - GB: lead vocals for me..... "I'd Rather Drink Muddy Water an Sleep in a Hollow Log" (Lou Rawls) - "Born In Chicago" (Muddy Waters) and ":A Boy 12" (Buddy Guy) are on my newest CD....NO FIDDLES..and what is on your CD Jjaba??? Respighi and Arnold Bax? |
Jjaba
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Username: Jjaba
Post Number: 6226
Registered: 11-2003
| | Posted on Thursday, March 27, 2008 - 5:35 pm: | |
Right now jjaba is enjoying a nice collection of Turkish songs on his boombox.
Perhaps when jjaba does his Eastside tour, Eastside61 will play fiddle for jjaba. jjaba's father played fiddle for the Czar and brought the instrument to America, 1913. He loves all kindz fiddles.
jjaba, on the multi-cultural Westside. |
Goblue
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Username: Goblue
Post Number: 1386
Registered: 03-2007
| | Posted on Thursday, March 27, 2008 - 5:47 pm: | |
J: Interesting story...do you still have your dad's violin? |
Jjaba
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Username: Jjaba
Post Number: 6227
Registered: 11-2003
| | Posted on Thursday, March 27, 2008 - 11:03 pm: | |
jjaba's cousin wanted a better violin. So they traded it in on a better one and the family fiddle went poof. jjaba's father should have kept it but let his brother keep it for "safekeeping". Result, he sold it.
jjaba, sad but true story. |
Brenda
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Username: Brenda
Post Number: 66
Registered: 02-2007
| | Posted on Friday, March 28, 2008 - 12:22 am: | |
I don't remember if Jim Wirth had an older sister--too many years. I just remember him having a white beetle bug. He was friends with Donna Wasson who introduced us--mistake, lol...I believe I heard many years later he married a lady and lives in Grosse Pointe...yet, my best and funniest memories of Denby were the driver training months during the summer...and of course, my rides around Belle Isle...I didn't make my father nervous and was proud that I pleased him and proud of myself of what I accomplished at that time...all in all, with what has happen to Detroit and Michigan now, we still have our memories. |
Goblue
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Username: Goblue
Post Number: 1387
Registered: 03-2007
| | Posted on Friday, March 28, 2008 - 10:52 am: | |
Brenda: Thanks for your thoughts...I remember the driver training course too...but my older sister had taught me to drive a stick shift when I was twelve so the TAR course was a piece of cake. SE59 and I spent a lot of time at Belle Isle...skating, canoeing, driving...and...well, we'll leave that part out! lol. The last time I was there was in the mid-90's for a Grand Prix race...I was living in Kalamazoo at the time.
You are correct...whatever has happened to Detroit and Michigan we have some really great memories of the Eastside...even Jjaba as an honorary Eastsider since he attended that great Eastside high school, Cass Tech. ES61 and I keep bouncing thoughts, etc. (on the days he sobers up) to keep the thread at the top in the hopes that others will share some memories. What other great experiences did you have as a TAR?
Jjaba: The loss of your dad's violin is tragic! It would be so great if you could hold it knowing its history. |